The Big Show, a thoughtful radio show on current events featuring Rusty Silber and Ron Grace on WRLR-FM 98.3 in Lake County, IL, had hisorian William S. Bike, author of the book Winning Political Campaigns, on May 24 to talk about President Joe Biden’s first 100 days.The conversation is available
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Amid the backdrop of rallies and marches elevating Black lives in America, a wave of violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic also has entered the national conversation.
They routinely encounter prejudice that makes them feel like foreigners in their own country, according to interviews with Asian American and Pacific Islanders who live in Rochester or the surrounding suburbs.
Stop AAPI Hate is an advocacy center that tracks and responds to hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. The group said it received more than 2,800 reports of hate incidents directed at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders nationwide January 2020, as the coronavirus spread.
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It was with a feeling of deep disappointment, as well as some deja vu, that I read Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is still pushing to form an international cartel of governments that would implement a minimum corporate income tax rate across borders. Now, instead of 21%, Yellen is calling for a bare minimum of 15%.
That may relieve some heartburn for concerned corporate executives, but they’re not the only ones who should be troubled. The proposal is just one part of the Biden administration’s effort to generate prosperity somehow by forcing costs and prices to increase.
Yellen’s push reflects an avowed effort to avoid tax revenue leakages when corporations move their operations to lower-tax jurisdictions. It’s also an attempt to make certain that corporations, as well as the people they keep wealthy, pay their share for the administration’s ambitious spending plans.
President Joe Biden launched an unprecedented purge of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts Monday, demanding the resignation of four of the seven members.